Nonfiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list
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last updated December, 2025
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Siddharth Kara
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
John Birdsall
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
The Tragedy of True Crime
John J. Lennon
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
John Seabrook
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Brandon M. Terry
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton
The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Kevin Sack
Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
John W. Miller
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Julian Borger
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
Jonathan Mahler
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Sophie Gilbert
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Haley Cohen Gilliland
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson
Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut
Ken Belson
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
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